[GLLUG] Great Cheap wireless PCI!

[Charles Ulrich]

Eduardo Cesconetto wrote:
> I'd add to Charles's quote that the Netgear WG511T Made in Taiwan   
> works flawlessly out-of-the-box with all the distros I tried, but the  
> made in China version it very problematic.
> []'s
> Eduardo
> 

Mine's made in China and I haven't had any problems with it. As of a 
couple years ago, the WG511T was one of the few Linux-compatible wifi 
cards that didn't switch to a non-Linux-compatible chipset in later 
revisions. Now there are more choices, but it's still nice to be able to 
just tell people, "you want model x" and then they can just skip out and 
go buy it when the need a Linux wifi card in a hurry. Maybe you got a 
bad card once, but based on Bill's and my experience, I'm not sure that 
the country of manufacture significantly affects the reliability of the 
card.

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Charles Ulrich
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